From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: print-circle and describe-variable Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:31:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4616EBD0.8020104@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175968271 8662 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2007 17:51:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 07 19:50:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HaEoF-0006uY-57 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:34:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaErr-0002pt-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaEqe-0008W6-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaEqd-0008Uf-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaEqc-0008UW-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HaEn0-0001ec-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HaEkj-0007Oy-9N; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:31:05 -0400 In-reply-to: <4616EBD0.8020104@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69173 Archived-At: Sometime ago we had a discussion about printing variables with recursive structures. As I remember it the conclusion was that we could not set print-circle to t generally now. But is there something that prevents describe-variable from let-bounding `print-circle' to t? I think this would be convenient. It sounds like a good idea to me. Does anyone know of a reason not to do it?